{"id":7506,"date":"2014-07-29T23:31:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T04:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsr-inc.com\/blog\/?p=7506"},"modified":"2014-07-30T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T14:45:27","slug":"pass-set-kill-national-scouting-report-scouts-the-volleyball-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/pass-set-kill-national-scouting-report-scouts-the-volleyball-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass, Set, Kill : National Scouting Report Scouts The Volleyball Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mary Louise Hunt is enjoying her “Full Circle Moment” while scouting some great volleyball athletes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

National Scouting Repor<\/a>t is on the ground scouting! \u00a0<\/strong>June 25th through the 29th was an exciting few days. The 30th Annual Volleyball Festival<\/a><\/strong> was held in Phoenix, Arizona at the Phoenix Convention Center. The four story venue was spectacular and perfect for such an awesome event. The Festival boasts a rich history of amazing volleyball. Approximately 450 club teams were represented and played a couple of days of pool play followed by a couple of days of tournament play. For the third year in a row, National Scouting Report proudly served as the recruiting arm for The Volleyball Festival.<\/strong> Before The Festival began, National Scouting Report assisted in a showcase for college-bound athletes. During the tournament, NSR hosted ten NCAA \/ NAIA Recruiting Seminars that were very well attended by parents and athletes alike. Attendees were informed about the \u201cMyths of Recruiting\u201d and NCAA\/NAIA rules. At the conclusion of each seminar, there was a question and answer session. All in attendance, left with a great deal of knowledge and information to help their athlete with recruiting decisions.<\/p>\n

National Scouting Report<\/strong> was very well represented. Cliff Weeks<\/a> of Southern California was once again at The Volleyball Festival \u2013 Cliff was the original NSR link to The Festival and has done an amazing job cultivating that relationship. Also scouting at The Festival was Stacey Harris<\/a> (San Francisco, California), Bryant Edleson <\/a>(San Diego, California), Carissa Kalaba<\/a> (San Diego, California), Gil Barkey<\/a> (Denver, Colorado), Ryan Johnston<\/a> (Phoenix, Arizona), Syndric Steptoe<\/a> (Tucson, Arizona), Josh and CeCe Kroeger <\/a>(Birmingham, Alabama), Mary Louise Hunt<\/a> (Atlanta, Georgia) and Robert and Susan Cagle<\/a> (Mobile, Alabama).<\/p>\n

NSR\u2019s Mary Louise Hunt<\/strong> of Atlanta, Georgia especially enjoyed scouting The Festival as Mary Louise participated as an athlete in the very first Festival event in 1984. Mary Louise recognized and re-acquainted herself with several of The Festival staff. Mary Louise described the event as, \u201cA full circle moment\u201d.<\/strong> Mary Louise and the other scouts saw some tremendous athletes. Athletes from Arizona, California, Alaska, Hawaii, Maryland and Washington to name a few had a great time at The Festival. Bryan Kelley, director of The Festival was hospitable as usual. The meals provided for NSR scouts and college coaches were tremendous. The Volleyball Festival is definitely a first class event.<\/strong> Bryan also directs a sister tournament in Glendale, Arizona in February. The February event is called The Festival Fiesta Classic <\/a>and is held at the University of Phoenix Stadium.<\/strong> NSR looks forwarding to seeing more great volleyball talent at The Festival Fiesta Classic on January 17-19, 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  National Scouting Report is on the ground scouting! \u00a0June 25th through the 29th was an exciting few days. The 30th Annual Volleyball Festival was held in Phoenix, Arizona at the Phoenix Convention Center. The four story venue was spectacular and perfect for such an awesome event. The Festival boasts a rich history of amazing … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[10,222,96,193,140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}